Charity Tells Sunak To Fix Social Care Funding

COUNCIL tax would need to be hiked by 10 per cent if social care is to “stand still,” says Age UK.

- Sarah O’Grady

It would raise £3.3billion with the average Band D household paying up to £180 more a year.

But this would be “extremely unfair” as it would leave people in need of care in some areas “seriously disadvantaged”, warned the charity’s report.

It is calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak for an urgent central government cash injection instead. His decisions in this month’s spending review will determine whether social care services “wither and die”, stand still or get stronger.

Caroline Abrahams, Age UK charity director and co-chairwoman of the Care and Support Alliance, said: “Social care’s problems are national, as the Prime Minister recognised with his promise to ‘fix them once and for all’.